Posted on 04/03/2016 4:11:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
Trump Tries the Art of Intimidation
by JOHN FUND April 3, 2016
Seven months ago, after he signed a pledge to support whoever won the GOP nomination, Donald Trump said, “I see no circumstances under which I would tear up that pledge.” That was then. Today we see a different Trump. On Sunday, he told Chris Wallace of Fox News that while he wanted “to run as a Republican,” he wouldn’t rule out an independent or third-party race this fall. “We’re going to have to see how I was treated,” he warned. GOP leaders should have known better than to have taken his pledge seriously.
As the Associated Press pointed out in September 2015, his record on honoring contracts is at best spotty: When lender Boston Safe Deposit & Trust refused to extend the mortgage on his Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago, he ceased making loan payments until the bank capitulated in 1992. In his book The Art of the Comeback, Trump proudly recounts forcing his unpaid lenders to choose between fighting him in bankruptcy court or cutting him an additional $65 million check. Afraid of losing their jobs, the bankers folded, Trump says. (snip)
As Donald Trump piles up more rookie campaign mistakes and his momentum stalls, he is clearly developing a Plan B for the Cleveland convention. Call it “The Art of Intimidation.”
Republican leaders shouldn’t twist convention rules in Cleveland to block Trump’s nomination. Nor should they disrespect his voters. But they also should call out the veiled threats from Team Trump for what they are: a form of political blackmail. And no party seeking a mandate to govern should surrender to such lowball tactics
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Well actually, Steelfish, that IS the way. People such as yourself operate under the premise that you are 'Educated' when in fact you have merely been indoctrinated. So the you feel superior to the 'Undeducated' and feel they must be stupid when the exact opposite is true.
You and people like you reap the fruits of the labor of others while contributing nothing to the common good. The 'Uneducated' that you scorn drive the trucks on the roads they built, delivering food which they raised, to your in your house which they built, where you read your newpaper made from the papermill.... You can see where this is going.
I know this because I used to be like you. Then I grew up and made a business myself. So I know how you think and why you think it, and I know you are so wrong. Americans built this wonderful country, and if you are not helping to build it, you are merely a parasite to a greater or lesser degree. So get off your pedestal and do something, right now you are merely moving your jaw muscles. Put your brain in gear first, then talk about what you did that helped make America great, and support those that truly did. Currentlyou are on the wrong side of history. I hope you can realize this and change to be a real American and not a Euroweinie wannabee.
If he runs as an independent or third party candidate, he cannot compete in Texas, Ohio, or South Dakota.
And those who voted in the Republican primary couldn’t sign a third party petition for him.
Many states accomplish the same requirement by having simultaneous registration dates for the primary and the general election. Only the states of Connecticut, Iowa, New York, and Vermont have neither a sore-loser law nor simultaneous registration deadlines.
“Trump is so lucky with his Trumpkins and explains why he said he “loves the least educated.” Maybe that’s how we make America great again.”
1. We prefer “Trumpanzees.”
2. A great many of us have educational achievements far greater than your own ‘fish.
“I know this because I used to be like you. Then I grew up and made a business myself. So I know how you think and why you think it, and I know you are so wrong. Americans built this wonderful country, and if you are not helping to build it, you are merely a parasite to a greater or lesser degree. So get off your pedestal and do something, right now you are merely moving your jaw muscles. Put your brain in gear first, then talk about what you did that helped make America great, and support those that truly did. Currentlyou are on the wrong side of history. I hope you can realize this and change to be a real American and not a Euroweinie wannabee. “
Truly excellent.
+1
Most of us who have supported other candidates can readily name a second, third, and fourth choice. All candidates have strengths and weaknesses. None are perfect. Politics involves hard choices, tradeoffs, and compromises. But the Trumpkins don't seem to think in those terms.
Wouldn't it serve the same purpose if Mr. Trump withdrew and allowed Senator Cruz to have the nomination. What makes Mr. Trump more worthy of a free ride than anyone else.
If Mr. Trump gets the nomination, as he quite likely may, he needs to toughen up. He also needs to make friends rather than enemies. As the leader, he needs to mend fences with Senator Cruz and the others who he has spent months insulting. There is certainly not going to be a free ride in the general election. Sec. Clinton and her media army is not going to be concerned with treating him fairly.
Not true. I, like many Cruz supporters, campaigned and worked for Reagan. Trump on the other hand is a con man and snake oil salesman and people are catching onto him. Even Rush called Cruz the true, tested, and consistent conservative and entitled to claim the mantle of Reagan. So does Mark Levin. Are you going to attack us all as elites? Worst of all, all polls now show both Hillary and Bernie beating Trump. This is a case of putting country first before some fake “Dear Leader” of the sort that Kim Jung-un would be proud of.
Thank you for your courteous reply, and thank you even more so for absolutely making my point; That you don't think for yourself, after carefully watching and doing your due diligence, you merely parrot others. That is sad.
As I have sated before, we are all Americans and we are all in the same boat. We used to be proud to be Americans, degree'd or not, all speaking English, with no hyphens. Then we were Alinsky'ed and now we fight our fellow Americans. The reason Trump gets so much support from ALL types of Americans is because he understands this, and none of the others do. I want to be proud to be an American again. I support Trump for that reason alone.
The GOP should never have let Trump on the ballot, because he’s a cowbird - a critter that flies in and lays its eggs in the nest of another bird.
That said, if he runs third party, it will be a wash because only the GOP Trump contingent (less than 30% overall, but probably even less when push comes to shove) and, based on the surveys, about the same number of leftist white Dems will vote for him. So both parties will lose about the same percentage of ther voters.
If every body thought alike, there would be no ramifications.
Many people consider the intimidation to be political blackmail.
So you don’t? So what. You aren’t everybody.
It is just like his convoluted answers concerning abortion.
Some here are still defending his first answer even though he recanted. He did get both pro-life groups and pro-abort groups in a tizzy. Perception: He wants to punish women.
Everybody cheered when he had a twitter war against Megyn Kelly. To many the perception is: He is a misogynist. Not me, but to them. In the general it will be: Why didn’t he attack Chris Matthews like he did Megyn?
Scott Walker didn’t endorse him, instead of saying, I sure wish I had his endorsement, and if I win the nomination I hope that he will give me his support, Nah, he attacked Walker.
His negatives keep rising and he needs to start doing something to reverse the trend.
I am voting against Hillary and or Bernie this time. It is an imperative that we do not have a Dem in office.
At the beginning, I thought that anybody would defeat the left. I have my doubts.
Have you contacted the Trump campaign? I am pretty sure he has a senior advisor position for you. Or you can peddle your opinion to Bernie, maybe you will get an even better offer. Are you going to vote for Trump or not, if not, who cares about why you didn't vote for him.
Have trouble reading?
I said I was voting. Sorry I am not jumping up and down agreeing with every fool thing said or action taken.
Trump made the pledge to support the Republicans in return for the Republicans stopping their jihad to destroy him in the presidential primaries.
I don't think the Republicans have not lived up to their end of the idea and will no be satisfied until their little civil war has destroyed the party.
Does anyone really believe that the Republican Party is going to put Ted Cruz, the most hated Republican in Washington, up for the presidency?
By the time the Party of Stupid is done being too clever for their own good they may end up with an Independent or Democratic ticket of Donald Trump and Gen James Webb.
If Cruz was far ahead with votes and delegates and Trump couldn’t make the number, it would make sense for Trump to drop out. It’s not a free ride, it’s letting the person who gets the most votes win.
I sort of thought that was the way it was supposed to work in a democracy.
He didn’t just verbally agree, I seem to remember him signing a document.
Guess contracts mean zilch to Trump. Wow...there is a surprise.
Having trouble with your comprehension? You said you were voting, but not for who. I replied that if you weren’t voting for Trump, never mind. Thanks for playing, you get a participation trophy.
“Guess contracts mean zilch to Trump.
Unless Trump received compensation for his signature, I don’t believe it is a legal contract.
We also do not know if there was more agreed to than one piece of paper.
And we have seen the other side of the agreement failed.
It was not a suicide pact.
I said I was voting against Hillary/Sanders.........duh.
Never Trump and Never Cruz people are idiots. This election is too important.
Now, since I have already voted in the primary, I can only vote in the general and it won’t be for a rat.
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